Ivy League Conservatives

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It’s June, and Barack Obama has clinched the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. He is running against John McCain after defeating Hillary Clinton. 

Sometimes I think I’m seeing things that others aren’t aware of. Not in a clairvoyant sense, exactly, or even in an historical sense. It’s more like the moment when Jim Carrey realized his world was a television set in The Truman Show and Carrey saw that everyone around him was a mere actor in a scripted reality show. I’m waiting for Ashton Kutcher to pop out from behind a tree and laugh hysterically at all the loony liberals who have championed Obama’s cause for all these months. Some days, I feel like I–and other conservative bloggers–am giving a lecture to my peers in a foreign language. To question Obama on any aspect of his candidacy and personal life is akin to questioning the existence of gravity, the color of the sky, truths that are understood to be fundamentally and unequivocally factual.

It’s exceptionally difficult for me to comprehend that we have become so naive and complacent in our own safe palaces of prosperity. It’s easy to vote for spirited youth and against age when you are young and still struggling against the reins of authority. It’s easy to vote for the more eloquent candidate, the sharper dresser, the prettier one. It’s easy to pretend that we’re not facing threats of extinction from an adversary far scarier than global warming.

What’s far more difficult is doing research on ‘facts’ as they’re presented and arriving at our own conclusions, independent from those of any member of the press, even independent from a political blogger. What’s difficult is feeling confident and secure enough in your personal beliefs to disagree with a trendy candidate whose policies fly in the face of your nonnegotiable truths. 

We cannot be cattle led to slaughter simply because we are too naive or blind to look past the butchers ahead wielding knives and guns.  

Obama  should not even be considered a contender in the race for the presidency. He was certainly elected by the Democrats to participate in this race, but he does not belong in the White House for both his politics and his background. Conservative bloggers have opined on his utter unsuitability tirelessly, and for months. We will do so until we are blue in the face. Our words don’t matter, however, because it’s voters that will stand alone in the polling booths around the country to elect our next leader, not an army of laptop-wielding pundits.

Ask yourself what your nonnegotiable issues are. Ask yourself what your stance is on the issues that are most important to you. If a candidate opposes your personal stance on these issues, it is your duty to protect your own interests and vote against him.

Do you believe that women should have the right to abort their fetus? If you do, then Obama is your man. He viewed a baby from a hypothetical unplanned pregnancy as a punishment when speaking with these voters:

Obama may have meant to say consequence rather than punishment, but there are some words whose sting cannot be covered up by apologies and backpedaling.

Do you agree that you should automatically give up a piece of your pie so that others can have more–when the ‘pie’ is your income and ‘others’ can include those less fortunate, illegal aliens and families on welfare? Yes, it’s Michelle Obama who delivers these remarks, but no campaign would be stupid enough to send a wife to deliver stump speeches that didn’t align perfectly with her husband’s party line.

Do you believe that the United States should not continue to develop our weapons systems to ensure that we are the most technologically advanced military power in the world? If so, then vote for Obama. He doesn’t even want to fund our military defense systems. That’s hand-writing a letter to the entire rest of the world to come on over and invade us. Yes, by all means, let’s talk to our adversaries. Negotiation–and trust–are key elements in foreign policy. However, when words don’t work, we must be prepared to speak in a language our adversaries do understand. Senator Obama has neither the experience nor the cojones to speak in that language.

 

There are hundreds of polarizing issues that divide Barack Obama from the moderate and conservative political spheres. Bloggers have covered them ad infinitum. Our next step as citizens must be to look inside at the issues that matter to us. These are the three issues that matter most to me. Let your stance on the issues that matter most to you dictate the recipient of your vote in November.